The Federal Police agree and Ryan O’Donnell, hunky undercover policeman just out of a rough stint with an outlaw bikie gang, is sent in to investigate.
No-one will come straight out and say it but there is a lot of speculation around that there are way too many fires so there has to be an arsonist at work in the area. The stigma is too much to bear so the best thing she can do for her young son Daniel is give him a clean slate far from the burnt ruins of their lives, so she reverts to her maiden name and relocates to the Atherton Tablelands.įive years after the Canberra fires Kaitlyn is working for Border Watch and is a volunteer with the Rural Fire Service, and the Atherton Tablelands is suffering through an extremely large volume of bushfires.
All of the evidence points to him but Kaitlyn is still not completely convinced, though she has no theories of her own to offer. Kaitlyn loses her house, her father and her husband in the fire but she also loses faith when her husband is accused of lighting the fires. After Kaitlyn Scott loses it all in the deliberately lit fires she relocates to far north Queensland to build a new life, with a clean slate, for her young son and for her mother. The prologue takes place in the midst of devastating Canberra bushfires, it wasn’t until I read the Author’s Note at the back that I discovered they were not the tragic fires of 2003. The timing certainly made the reality of bushfires and the prologue more vivid.īurning Lies is my introduction to Helene Young so I have only just discovered that this is loosely linked to Young’s previous two novels Shattered Sky and Wings of Fear which means I can quite confidently say this book works perfectly as a stand alone novel.
I happened to be there for the 10 year anniversary of the horrific bushfires that decimated two suburbs, while there were 140 bushfires raging and we weren’t sure whether we were going to find ourselves stranded and unable to come home. Yesterday saw me arrive home after 4 weeks in Canberra with my family. I am not sure I timed the reading of this novel as well as I could have. I’ve said it before and I really do feel like I have to begin this review by saying it again.
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